When comparing Fitocracy vs Strava, the Slant community recommends Fitocracy for most people. In the question“What are the best fitness apps for iOS?”Fitocracy is ranked 2nd while Strava is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Fitocracy is:

Earn points, unlock achievements, take on challenges and quests and level up. Seeing progress, getting rewarded for activities and reaching a set threshold feels nice and helps in continuing to be motivated. Especially when just starting out.
There's even a leaderboard so you can compare your progress to your friends.

Pros

Pro

Gamification keeps you motivated

Earn points, unlock achievements, take on challenges and quests and level up. Seeing progress, getting rewarded for activities and reaching a set threshold feels nice and helps in continuing to be motivated. Especially when just starting out.

There's even a leaderboard so you can compare your progress to your friends.

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Engaging community

You can post updates on progress and have other people comment on it, encouraging to keep working out. You can ask questions and a community of more than 1 million users will be there to answer.

Pro

Free

There is a paid option ($4.99/mo or $44.99/yr), called Hero, that adds private messaging, ability to challenge a friend in an activity, assign yourself a title and weekly insights among other things.

Pro

Workout logging UI is very simple & clean to use

Pro

Versatility

Fitocracy has solutions for all manners of workout regimens and styles.

Pro

Keeps track of segments without user manually timing them

Segments - can track your improvements or compare with friends, club members without manual input. Or you can keep them private

Pro

Tracks heart rate with chest strap

Pro

Equipment tracking

This lets you figure out how many miles you've put on a pair of shoes before it's time to get a replacement pair.

Pro

Can share running routes with others

Running is boring if it's the same stretch of road. Stava lets you share good places to run.

Pro

Supports multiple devices

Current list includes:iPhone 3GS and later,Android 2.2 and later,Garmin Forerunner and Edge,Soleus,Timex Run Trainer 2.0

Pro

Watch the Pro's

You are able to follow some profession athletes and see their training etc Makes you realise how hard they train

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Allows challenging other people

You can set a goal and challenge friends as well as local professional athletes.